See done thing on Wiktionary
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{ "forms": [ { "form": "done things", "tags": [ "plural" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": {}, "expansion": "done thing (plural done things)", "name": "en-noun" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "noun", "related": [ { "word": "do the decent thing" } ], "senses": [ { "categories": [ "British English", "English countable nouns", "English entries with incorrect language header", "English lemmas", "English multiword terms", "English nouns", "English terms with quotations", "Pages with 1 entry", "Pages with entries", "Quotation templates to be cleaned" ], "examples": [ { "ref": "1985, Susan Howatch, Wheel of Fortune:", "text": "I wanted to be called Linda but Aunt Angela said that was a common name, you know, not the done thing, so I have to be Bella...", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2000 August 12, Vivek Chaudhary, The Guardian:", "text": "\"I was only 18 and was having back problems so I got regular cortisone injections. It was the done thing in those days, all the players were having them.\"", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "Something done habitually or according to social norms, expectations, etc." ], "links": [ [ "habitually", "habitually" ], [ "norm", "norm" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(chiefly UK) Something done habitually or according to social norms, expectations, etc." ], "tags": [ "UK" ] } ], "word": "done thing" }
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